Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown